VICAR IN COLLISION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 8

VICAR IN COLLISION.

ACCIDENT AT KAIWARRA.

TWO PEOPLE INJURED.

CANON JAMES - UNHURT.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Monday.

Serious injury was suffered by two riders of a motor cycle which came into collision with a motor car driven by Canon Percival James, vicar of St. Paul's, on the Hutt Road this afternoon. -

Those injured are Miss Irene Higgins, of Tasman Street, reader in the Government printing office, who received a severe fracture at the "base of the skull and abrasions, and Mr. John David Buckley, of Tinakori Road, a railway fireman,, who received serious head injuries and a fracture of the right foot. The motor cycle, which was driven by Mr. Buckley, was coming toward the city from the Hutt, and the motor car was going from. Wellington. The vehicles '* were at Kaiwarra when the accident occurred. ' I

Both Mr. Buckley and Miss Higgins were unconscious when picked up.

Canon James, the driver of the car, was unhurt.

The two injured were removed to the hospital and late to-night neither had regained consciousness.